Washington · Nonprofit
DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT
DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,400,000 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($900,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $605k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $340k
What Democratizing Philanthropy Project does
Mission
Democratizing Philanthropy Project gives organizations addressing the systemic issues facing our nation the ability to build a powerful, lasting revenue stream and network of engaged activists and donors they can rely on. Specifically, we work to help organizations test out and build new approaches to earning revenue; ensure vulnerable organizations have more power, have more flexibility in how to spend those resources, and respond more nimbly and rapidly to critical needs as they emerge; expand the small donor apparatus to grassroots, nonprofits, historically excluded frontline organizations; and convert national interest in racial and social justice into long-term financial strength for chronically underfunded and historically neglected organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Accelerator: Democratizing Philanthropy Project's accelerator program is a cohort-based model designed to support progressive non-profits in growing their capacity around small donor revenue generation. Utilizing lead generation and other digital fundraising tactics, participating organizations will come together over four months for weekly workshops, individualized coaching, and asynchronous learning via a shared slack channel and google drive. Organizations in an accelerator cohort also receive capacity building grants and along with additional grant investments for lead generation. The accelerator cohort aims to build larger, more engaged email lists while providing support to convert those names into trusted activists and committed donors.
$158,461 spentof which $83,165 as grants81% of program spendingRapid response: rapid response is a program designed to support organizations to engage in rapid response fundraising when the public support is there for them.
$37,710 spent19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $196,171.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $545k to $978k (+79%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Iara D Peng
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $400k → $700k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
64% of DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $500k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $900k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.4M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
31% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT?
- DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,400,000 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($900,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,400,000 in grants to DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT?
- Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEMOCRATIZING PHILANTHROPY PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing